Aidan Gillan who plays Tommy Carcetti from Drumcondra

Spiritoftheseventies

Aidan Gillan who plays Tommy Carcetti from Drumcondra. There was an interview with him in last Sunday's independent magazine section. Dominic West who plays McNulty has Irish connections too. Could the Wire be a mirror image of whats going on in Dublin at the moment. has lots of similarities.

It's not that big a deal tbh. Pretty much every actor/musician/writer can amazingly trace their roots right back to Ireland and every time we hear that a famous individual's great, great, great, great, great, great granfathers former room mate was Irish the press get all excited. Yet when an English paper has the gall to call an Irish actor British the same papers go mad.

Spiritoftheseventies

Think Dominic West's parents are Irish and Aidan Gillen is Irish. so it would be a big enough deal.

Boom_Bap

I think Domenic Wests connection is that he studied in Trinity.

Penn

Isn't Baltimore one of the colonies or something? Most people in this 13 states can trace their roots back to Ireland. Makes sense for Irish actors to play some of those roles

bayviewclose

bayviewclose wrote: »

Think Dominic West's parents are Irish and Aidan Gillen is Irish. so it would be a big enough deal.

Is it really that big a deal that he's Irish and West's parents are Irish? Does it change anything about their talent?

Lets be honest the Irish like to claim whomever they can as their own. If we could claim Josef Freitzl we would.

krudler

Aidan Gillan who plays Tommy Carcetti from Drumcondra

Shouldnt that say "Aiden Gillan who plays Tommy Carcetti IS FROM Drumcondra" ?

Aiden Gillen is a well known Irish actor, he was in Queer as Folk years ago and he was the villian in Shanghai Knights with Jackie Chan, good actor too

Spiritoftheseventies

Yeah it should say Aidan Gillan who plays Tommy Carcetti IS FROM Drumcondra but you start correcting every one on small things like that and you will be here all day.

lukin

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it really that big a deal that he's Irish and West's parents are Irish? Does it change anything about their talent?

Lets be honest the Irish like to claim whomever they can as their own. If we could claim Josef Freitzl we would.

Yeah I know, it wouldn't make me watch the show just 'cause there's a few paddies in it. Dominic West's mother is Irish and his wife's parents are Irish (they own Glin castle in Limerick).
Baltimore is named after Lord Baltimore, an English coloniser who was the first owner of Maryland and who took his title from a place in Bornacoola parish, County Leitrim.
I found the portrayal of Irish culture in The Wire to be bit cliched; McNulty is a hard-drinking Irish cop and the wakes of deceased cops take place in an Irish bar with some terrible Pogues song playing.

Spiritoftheseventies

Mc Nulty's fake wake at the end a classic. and that pogues song a classic too!

rondeco

lukin wrote: »

Yeah I know, it wouldn't make me watch the show just 'cause there's a few paddies in it. Dominic West's mother is Irish and his wife's parents are Irish (they own Glin castle in Limerick).
Baltimore is named after Lord Baltimore, an English coloniser who was the first owner of Maryland and who took his title from a place in Bornacoola parish, County Leitrim.
I found the portrayal of Irish culture in The Wire to be bit cliched; McNulty is a hard-drinking Irish cop and the wakes of deceased cops take place in an Irish bar with some terrible Pogues song playing.

I think it's a portrayal of Irish american and police culture there.

rondeco

bayviewclose wrote: »

Mc Nulty's fake wake at the end a classic. and that pogues song a classic too!

If you've ruined season 5 for me, I'm gonna tear you a new one.

Spiritoftheseventies

not at all. its irrelevant to the plot.

K4t

lukin wrote: »

I found the portrayal of Irish culture in The Wire to be bit cliched; McNulty is a hard-drinking Irish cop and the wakes of deceased cops take place in an Irish bar with some terrible Pogues song playing.

I hate people say this about the Wire regarding McNulty.

rondeco wrote: »

I think it's a portrayal of Irish american and police culture there.

Exactly.

Yer man is a good actor. Enjoyed him a lot in the Wire.

Terrontress

As with so many of the other cast in The Wire, I thought Aidan Gillen was fantastic and was genuinely shocked when I heard he is from Drumcondra.

I think Dominic West's family are Anglo Irish old-money type. I read an article with him in The Guardian and he is very interested in Irish history and is married to an Irish woman with a British title.

lukin

Just saw one of the extra features on the fourth season DVD;Aiden Gillen said "the show plays in Dublin on an Irish language channel called TG4. One of the few English language shows on it and it goes down well."

Spiritoftheseventies

lukin wrote: »

Just saw one of the extra features on the fourth season DVD;Aiden Gillen said "the show plays in Dublin on an Irish language channel called TG4. One of the few English language shows on it and it goes down well."

Yes caught the last series on TG4. Of course had the last episode recorded on digital and off course it runs out. so i had to wait for the repeat on Saturday to watch last ten minutes. always happens with that show. does me head in!

K4t

lukin wrote: »

Just saw one of the extra features on the fourth season DVD;Aiden Gillen said "the show plays in Dublin on an Irish language channel called TG4. One of the few English language shows on it and it goes down well."

Yes, fair play to TG4. Watched the 5th season on it and it got me through the first half of my leaving cert year. Kept me going all week. But then it had to end unfortunately.